Tuesday, February 27, 2018

"AMD GPU Shipments Increased Big Time in Q4 2017, NVIDIA and Intel Decline – Over 3 Million Graphics Card Sold To Crypto Miners in 2017"

From the gaming geeks at WCCF Tech:

The latest GPU market report from Jon Peddie research
has been released and shows that AMD gained a good chunk of the GPU
market share during fourth quarter of 2017. At the same time, both
NVIDIA and Intel witnessed decline in GPU market share.

According to the report from Jon Peddie,
the overall GPU shipments decreased in Q4 2017 when compared to the
previous quarter. The decrease was about -1.5% which follows normal
seasonal shipments. Then again, year to year comparison shows that GPU
shipments decreased -4.8%, the desktop graphics decreased -2% and
notebook graphics decreased -7%. The report also states that 3 million
discrete graphics cards were consumed by miners alone during 2017 which
amounted to $776 million in sales.

When breaking down the numbers, it looks like AMD won this quarter
big time with a market share increase of 8.1%. At the same time, NVIDIA
decreased -6% while Intel decreased -2%. The current market share looks
like the following:

AMD @ 14.2% (versus 13.0% Last Quarter)

NVIDIA @ 18.4% (versus 19.3% Last Quarter)

Intel @ 67.4% (versus 67.8% Last Quarter)

AMD was the main benefactor [sic] of the total mining hardware sales of
$776 million as reported in the article. When comparing the graphics
chip market segments, almost the entire industry saw a downward trend in
Q4 2017 which includes discrete graphics for desktop, notebook
integrated and embedded for mobility systems. The discrete notebook
market and desktop integrated and embedded platforms saw an increase in
growth rate of 3.6% and 3.0% respectively....MORE